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Performance
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Tel Aviv Museum of Art to darken galleries in protest on Thursday
Read more: Tel Aviv Museum of Art to darken galleries in protest on ThursdayThe Tel Aviv Museum of Art is joining the countrywide judicial overhaul protests planned for Thursday, March 23, and will darken the halls and galleries of the museum, closing exhibits to the public and canceling planned tours and lectures. The…
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Ip Gim: Feminist Art and Activism
Read more: Ip Gim: Feminist Art and Activism“Founded in 1997 and active until 2018, Ip Gim was the first collective to use the word ‘feminist’ to describe itself in South Korea. Ip Gim is an unmatched artist collective that has pioneered feminist activist art practice in the…
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Israeli artists draw a red line to High Court in protest of judicial reform
Read more: Israeli artists draw a red line to High Court in protest of judicial reformThe “Day of Disruption” kicked off earlier than planned early on Thursday morning when dozens of Israeli artists painted a red line on the road to Israel’s High Court of Justice in Jerusalem. Launching another day of marches, demonstrations, and…
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The Guerrilla Girls: ‘We upend the art world’s notion of what’s good and what’s right’
Read more: The Guerrilla Girls: ‘We upend the art world’s notion of what’s good and what’s right’In 1984, a group of women in New York gathered outside the Museum of Modern Art as part of a protest. A group show, An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, was showing 165 artists, 152 male artists exhibited…
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Dismaland
Read more: DismalandIn August 2015, Weston-Super-Mare – a sleepy seaside town in Somerset, England – suddenly became the top destination for the metropolitan elite, welcoming celebrity guests like Brad Pitt, Jack Black and Mark Ronson. Overnight this quaint town, just 18 miles…
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Michael Moore demands nationwide boycott of Walgreens for not selling abortion pill: ‘Bigotry and misogyny’
Read more: Michael Moore demands nationwide boycott of Walgreens for not selling abortion pill: ‘Bigotry and misogyny’Filmmaker Michael Moore has called for a nationwide boycott of Walgreens after the pharmacy chain announced it would not sell abortion pills in 20 states. n February, 20 Republican state attorneys general wrote to Walgreens Corp. threatening legal action if…
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The Story of Let Hair Down and her confrontations with the NYPD
Read more: The Story of Let Hair Down and her confrontations with the NYPDKanami Kusakima, also known as the woman who dances in Washington Square Park with the long black hair and the paint, was happy to allow the Mayor’s Office of NYC use her image as a promotional tool for a “post-coivd”…
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Ice Watch London
Read more: Ice Watch LondonThe Guardian: Olafur Eliasson is putting the chill into climate change. The revered Scandinavian artist has placed 24 large blocks of centuries-old ice, harvested from the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland, in a circle outside the Tate Modern in London,…
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A Story Like Mine
Read more: A Story Like MineHalsey Delivers Emotional Speech About Sexual Abuse, Rape at New York Women’s March: Here Is Her Full Poem Halsey penned a powerful, heart-wrenching poem about her own experiences with sexual assault and rape for the 2018 Women’s March in New…
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We have to get beyond the shame’: Women of the World launches festival against sexual violence
Read more: We have to get beyond the shame’: Women of the World launches festival against sexual violenceGender equality charity Women of the World (WOW) is launching a one-day festival of activism that invites people from all generations, genders and backgrounds to take part in conversations around sexual violence. The festival, created in partnership with Birkbeck, University…